810, two
volumes, 1821-25, folio; _Monumental Inscriptions in the County of
Wilton_, two volumes, 1822, folio (only six copies of this work were
printed, one of which realised fourteen pounds, ten shillings at the
sale of the books); _A Book of Glamorganshire Antiquities, by Rice
Merrick, Esq., 1578, now first published by Sir T. Phillipps, Bart.,
1825_, folio; and _Collectanea de Familiis Diversis quibus nomen est
Phillipps, etc._, two volumes, 1816-40, folio (a copy of which fetched
sixteen pounds at the sale). Phillipps also printed catalogues of his
manuscripts and printed books. A fair but not complete list of the works
will be found in Lowndes's _Bibliographer's Manual of English
Literature_. In 1862 the printing-press was removed with the library and
other collections to Thirlestaine House.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 97: _Athenaeum_, February 17, 1872.]

REV. THOMAS CORSER, 1793-1876

The Rev. Thomas Corser was the third son of George Corser, banker, of
Whitchurch, Shropshire. He was born at Whitchurch in 1793, and received
his early education first at the school of his native place, and
afterwards at the Manchester Grammar School, from whence he was
admitted a commoner of Balliol College, Oxford. He took the degree of
B.A. in 1815 and that of M.A. in 1818. In 1816 Corser was ordained to
the curacy of Condover, near Shrewsbury, and after filling several other
curacies he was appointed in 1826 to the rectory of All Saints' Church,
Stand, Manchester, which living he held, together with the vicarage of
Norton-by-Daventry in Northamptonshire, for nearly half a century. He
died, after a long illness, at Stand Rectory on the 24th of August 1876.

The Rev. T. Corser was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in
1850, and he was one of the founders of the Chetham Society, for which
he edited four works: _Chester's Triumph_, James's _Iter Lancastrense_,
Robinson's _Golden Mirrour_, and _Collectanea Anglo-Poetica_. The
last-named work, of which a portion was written by Corser and the
remainder by James Crossley, is an elaborate account of Corser's
splendid collection of early English poetry.

Corser was one of the most learned and enthusiastic book-collectors of
his day, and his noble library contained, besides a wonderful collection
of unique and rare editions of the works of the early English poets and
dramatists, a fine block-book, 'Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis,' seven
Caxtons, and a large number of bo